Re: 1.3a1 - ( really where to set up key mappings )
Re: 1.3a1 - ( really where to set up key mappings )
- Subject: Re: 1.3a1 - ( really where to set up key mappings )
- From: Mick Mueck <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:39:11 -0500
That's correct. Like I said before in a previous post, all the Leopard
vs Tiger differences came as a result of the following bug report
during the Leopard beta period:
From within an xterm in X11 run the key event viewer /usr/X11R6/bin/
xev and you can see that some of the keys (on my white Apple keyboard
which has a numeric pad to the right) are not correctly being
identified. The main culprits are the shift, control, option/alt and
command keys on either side of the space bar. BOTH shift keys read as
'Shift_L' instead of the usual 'Shift_L' & 'Shift_R' on every other
*nix system. Same goes with the control keys (the right side key reads
as Control_L instead of Control_R), and for the command keys (the
right side key reads as Meta_L instead of Meta_R). The option/alt keys
either side of the space bar are just weird - they both read as
'Mode_Switch' instead of the usual 'Alt_L' and 'Alt_R'.
Apple 'fixed' everything for Leopard in accordance with the above
EXCEPT they left the left side Option/Alt key as Mode_Switch (and
changed the right side Option/Alt key to Alt_R). At the time I thought
leaving the left side Option/Alt key as Mode_Switch was an oversight
on Apple's behalf. Little did I appreciate the grief I was about to
unleash on you guys...
I guess I mistakenly thought that I was making X11 better and didn't
figure this was going to affect the Mac side.
Mick.
On Nov 21, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Jochen Pawletta wrote:
Am Wednesday, 2007-11-21 um 14:22:11 -0800 schrieb Nathaniel Gray:
Hi
It seems this feature is fairly highly desired... How would this be
for a control in X11->Preferences->X11 Keyboard Modification
Mapping:
...
Before you go down this road, let's find out what was done in Tiger.
I don't know about you folks, but my keyboard was fine in Tiger. For
those of you outside the US, did things work before?
de_DE: works for me in Tiger.
Both Alt-Keys were able to generate "|\~" and so on.
I think both Alt-Keys were mapped to "Mode_switch".
Jochen
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